Weekly highlights – 3 September 2015

“INASP has been supporting us to grant access to many scholarly databases since 2006. This really enriches teaching, learning and research activities of all higher educational institutions of Sri Lanka. A big thanks to INASP.”

From 8 to 10 September Deputy Executive Director Julie Brittain will be in Nairobi, Kenya for the launch of AESA and to meet with potential partners.

On 10 September Executive Director Sue Corbett will speak about the INASP Principles for Responsible Engagement at the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) conference in Heathrow, London. Follow #alpsp15 for more from that conference.

Recent publications

Reflections from the VakaYiko annual consortium meeting – Practising Development, 1 September, 2015 As Research Uptake Manager in the Evidence into Action team at the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), Ed Barney manages INASP funding on behalf of DFID. In this guest post, he reflects on the recent VakaYiko consortium meeting in Ghana.

Tanzanian workshop supports female researchers – INASP News, 23 August, 2015 INASP’s AuthorAID project is supporting a workshop on gender issues in Tanzania this week. The workshop, which will take place at the University of Dodoma from 24 to 28 August, will include 26 female academics from University of Dodoma and one from St John’s University.